LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – The Vermont ski team picked up seven podiums Saturday and earned the most team points in all four races to secure their fourth consecutive EISA Championship and 39th in program history. The Catamounts finished with 970 points, 79 ahead of second place Dartmouth.
 
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Justine Clément continued her impressive week in New York finishing first in the slalom after earning another win in the GS Thursday from Whiteface Mountain. Clément's first run was .30 seconds ahead of anyone else in the field and she maintained that edge and won with a combined run time of 1:53.19. UVM's Caroline Jones picked up her fifth podium of the season placing third overall with a two-run time of 1:54.21. Moa Clementson finished just behind Jones in fourth place, just .07 seconds later. Cydnie Timmerman also earned a top-10 finish with a two-run time of 1:55.89 for eighth overall.
 
Mathias Tefre won his fifth slalom race of the season Saturday finishing in a two-run time of 1:46.55. The two-time defending NCAA Champion in the discipline had the fastest first and second run in the field. Cole Palchak earned his third podium of the year with a third-place finish in a combined run time of 1:47.55. Joachim-Jagge Lindstol (5th, 1:48.12) and Declan McCormack (6th, 1:48.24) also earned top-10 placement Saturday.
 
In Nordic action from Mt. Van Hoevenberg the Catamounts were led by Haley Brewster and Annie McColgan in the 20k Classic. Brewster was second overall in a time of 1:03:18.3 and McColgan was just .5 seconds behind her. Dartmouth's Ava Thurston won the event with a time of 1:02:47.0. Marielle Ackermann earned her second top-10 of the year finishing ninth in a time of 1:04:12.1
 
Jacob Nystedt was Vermont's top finisher in the men's 20k Classic, placing third overall (54:28.7) for his eighth podium of the year. Harvard's Remi Drolet cruised to a 46-second win. Finn Sweet finished fourth with a time of 54:54.1. It was his fifth top-five finish of the year. UVM's final scorer was Greg Burt in a time of 56:14.2 for 12th place.
 
Next week the Catamounts will announce which of their qualified skiers will compete at the 2023 NCAA Ski Championships, which are scheduled for March 8-11 back in Lake Placid, N.Y. Vermont finished second overall at the 2022 Championships and returns six skiers who received All-America honors last year.
 
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